Spicy Black Eyed Pea Soup

                   
                  

This soup is what became of the leftover  black eyed pea salad that I cooked sometime ago.I made a lot of the salad and it  was becoming  an eye sore in the fridge. It is still  too good  for the garbage bin. The best recourse was to make a spicy soup out of it.

The bean salad was re-sauteed with chopped yellow onions,garlic and cumin seeds. After adding some water, paprika was added as well. I peeked in to the fridge and decided to pour in some President's Choice 8 Vegetable Cocktail into the mix and let it simmer. The veggie cocktail is actually part of my ongoing healthy breakfast regimen with oatmeal and fruits.The  vegetable cocktail  added some body  and new  flavors to the soup  due to an interesting (and healthy blend )of carrot, celery, beet, parsley, lettuce,watercress, spinach and concentrated grape juice. You have the whole  supermarket vegetable aisle in there.

After the peas have softened a bit, the soup  was processed in a blender and returned it to the pan for the necessary seasoning adjustments.

On the serving bowl, I garnished the soup with a teaspoon of coconut cream,chopped green onions and roasted grated coconut meat.

Namit (delicious) I should say. It has hints of  chili bean soup  probably because of the cumin.But it has more to it when the coco cream and roasted coconut meat were added.

This is what I like about making soups. You can play with a variety of ingredients. The possibilities are endless.

Comments

[perkycinderella]

Daw kanamit gid sina ya! I'll try this one ksai I've have the same dilemna sa beans ko which around 2 weeks na sa fridge ko.
I miss inasal, tinola, kinilaw and sinugba sa Bacolod. Been living abroad for 16 years na.

[angelo]

hi perkycinderella,

what a name you have:)
Nice to know there is a kasimanwa visiting my site.
my dad is from negros occidental too.